In 1969, a young artist named Michael Heizer headed into the Nevada desert 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas and cut a pair of trenches into a mesa, running 50 feet deep, 30 feet wide and a combined ...

There’s something quietly powerful about art that doesn’t try to dominate nature, but instead listens to it. Across forests, ...

Long before Instagram’s developers were even born, Gianfranco Gorgoni made the abstract concept of land art accessible to audiences around the world. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, artists like ...

In his new documentary, Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art, filmmaker and art historian James Crump digs beneath the surface to explore the personal lives, artworks, and historical treatment of ...

The term “land art” was made famous by the monumental interventions that artists have carved into the great outdoors since the trend boomed in the 1960s and 70s. But a growing number of artists today ...

What does it take to be a collector of land art? By its very nature, the genre has its share of challenges for anyone wishing to make the work their own. Directly embedded in the great outdoors, land ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jonathon Keats is a writer and artist who critiques museum exhibits. When Beverly Buchanan set out to create a monumental work of ...

Sometimes art makes you go, "Hmm, that's nice." And sometimes it makes you go, "Hmm … what?" Landscapes have inspired artists for a long time, and that is certainly the case with these iconic pieces ...

In the long afternoon of last year’s summer solstice, Ernest Edwin Higbee Jr. pulled a white Chevrolet Tahoe off the main road of Alamo, Nevada, driving past spindly creosote bush and stalky Nevada ...

Installation view of Ecstatic Land at Ballroom Marfa, October 26, 2022–May 7, 2023,; (right to left, top row to bottom row) Benny Merris, "An Other Another 20" (2012); "An Other Another 48" (2014); ...